One day you publicly support a new Texas anti-abortion law. The next day you step down as CEO of a video games company. That’s exactly what happened to John Gibson, the head of Tripwire Interactive.

CD Projekt Red has launched its first Kickstarter campaign. The publisher is raising money to release a hard copy collector’s edition manga set in an ancient-Japanese-inspired world where monster slayer Geralt trails the mythical Lady of Snow Yuki Onna.

John Gibson, the president of Tripwire Interactive, which is know as the publisher of Chivalry 2  and developer of Maneater and Killing Floor, took to Twitter to hail a new Texas anti-abortion law passed by the U.S. Supreme Court last week. Backlash from fellow devs ensued.

Twitch announced that it’s introducing new Software & Game Development streaming category to improve the discoverability of content for devs.

China’s second-largest e-commerce platform JD.com will no longer sell unlicensed “grey market” video games.

Apple has humbly extended privacy restrictions for third-party apps to its own products. On iOS 15, App Store and Apple News will now ask users for permission to access personal data used for targeted ads.

Sony might be building a brand new studio in Japan to work on new AAA titles that can be successful in Japan as well as in the West.

US skateboarding shoe and apparel company Vans partnered with Roblox to launch Vans World, an in-game interactive experience allowing players to skateboard while sporting Vans gear.

Australian indie developer Drop Bear Bytes is working on post-apocalyptic RPG Broken Roads, which is due out next year. Prior to signing with Team17, the studio was in talks with 35 publishers. Many of them, it seems, were only interested in the genre because the 2019 indie development darling Disco Elysium proved that a viable market exists for narrative-heavy RPG titles. What those publishers failed to understand, however, is that Disco Elysium does not define…

On August 31, Motive Studio held the first Dead Space dev stream and showed early preproduction build footage featuring assets that might not even make it into the final game. Which is perfectly logical, given that the production is just starting: Motive only began working on the title less than a year ago.

Publisher and developer BonusXP delisted Stranger Things 3: The Game from Steam, GOG and Epic Games Store.

Indie game publisher HypeTrain Digital and developer Morteshka announced that tactical card-based RPG Black Book has sold over 100,000 copies in under three weeks since release.

South Korea has become the first country to pass a law that ends Apple and Google’s power to dictate payment terms on their app marketplaces. This, analysts believe, sets “a potentially radical precedent for their lucrative app store operations everywhere from India to the U.S.”

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service issued a warning to Apple. The agency believes that the company “is abusing its dominant position in the distribution market for iOS apps.”

NetEase is in the late stages of talks to poach Toshihiro Nagoshi from Sega. Nagoshi is best known as the creator of the Yakuza series, and if he does join NetEase, it would strengthen China’s giant in Japan.

This week, discoverability expert Simon Carless discussed marketing for indie devs on the Game Dev Unlocked blog.

Apple proposed a settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by U.S. developers in 2019.

Epic has launched March Through Time, an interactive experience within Fortnite designed in collaboration with Time Magazine.

Borderlands developer Gearbox is launching a new studio in Montreal aptly dubbed Gearbox Studio Montreal.